Psystar store is back up, orders on the way — Psystar finally managed to get its Internet store back up and running Saturday, and promised that all Mac clones ordered to date will soon be on the way. — if you haven't been following the saga of Psystar, check out our coverage this week.

Will Apple open a store in Second Life? — On April 17, 2008, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's patent application titled Enhancing Online Shopping Atmosphere . Apple's patent generally relates to improving the experiences that online-shoppers may have at an online Apple Store, sometime in the future.

World Domination, or At Least a Couple of Bucks — It was a bright and sunny day in Palo Alto Saturday but the real heat was Stanford University's Kresge Auditorium where an SRO crowd of 700 attended Startup School '08, an all-day boot camp for entrepreneur wannabes hoping to be the next Sergey and Brin.

Encyclopedia Britannica Now Free For Bloggers — Encyclopedia Britannica often is used in case studies as a definitive example of how new technology can disrupt a business. Everything was great for the nearly 250 year old privately held company until the Internet came around and a Category Five hurricaned on their parade.

Yahoo! BrowserPlus: The rumour is true — Awhile back I heard a rumour that Yahoo! had a “Gears-like” project that was cancelled. I thought this was a shame, as having Yahoo! pushing the browser would be a great thing, and I wished that we could all join forces and push together.

Struggling to Evade the E-Mail Tsunami — E-MAIL has become the bane of some people's professional lives. Michael Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering new Internet companies, last month stared balefully at his inbox, with 2,433 unread e-mail messages, not counting 721 messages awaiting his attention in Facebook.

ReadWriteWeb Turns 5 — On 20 April, 2003, ReadWriteWeb was born. My first post here was appropriately entitled The Read/Write Web and it began: “The World Wide Web in 2003 is beginning to fulfil the hopes that Tim Berners-Lee had for it over 10 years ago when he created it.”

Asus Sets Eee PC 900 U.S. Launch for May 12th — Asus informed us this evening that the Eee PC 900 will hit the store shelves in the U.S. on May 12th. The Linux and Windows XP loaded version of this 8.9" version of the Eee PC will both cost $549. — The Eee PC 900 has already been released …

Papyrus — With the growing popularity and widespread use of communication tools like texting, Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter, today's students are more connected than ever. However, few educational solutions take advantage of these tools. Some schools use software like Blackboard, but the interfaces are clunky and outdated.

Ning Worth Half A Billion Dollars — Social network platform Ning joined Slide in the Half Billion Dollar Club by raising $60 million (after banker fees) on a $500 million pre-money valuation. Like Slide, Ning used influential investment bank Allen & Co. to represent them in the deal.

Paypal denies Safari-blocking reports — News in brief: There's been multiple reports claiming PayPal plans to block Safari users from using its service on account of the browser's lack of built-in anti-phishing features. — The Safari block has been mooted as part of a package of moves …